[Bug 1611909] Re: xenial dist-upgrader using wrong demotions list

[Brian Murray]

bdmurray at upgrade-trusty-amd64:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade -p --frontend
DistUpgradeViewText

....

Fetching and installing the upgrade can take several hours. Once the
download has finished, the process cannot be canceled.

 Continue [yN]  Details [d]d

No longer supported: consolekit empathy gcc-4.8-base gcc-4.9-base
  gstreamer0.10-alsa gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-apps ibus-pinyin
  libarchive-extract-perl liblog-message-simple-perl
  libmodule-pluggable-perl libpod-latex-perl libterm-ui-perl   
  libtext-soundex-perl module-init-tools rhythmbox-plugin-magnatune
  software-center ssh-askpass-gnome telepathy-idle
  ubuntu-sso-client-qt ubuntu-wallpapers-trusty


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Title:
  xenial dist-upgrader using wrong demotions list

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  The file DistUpgrade.cfg.trusty, which is included in the dist-upgrade
  tarball, has Demotions set to demotions.cfg instead of
  demotions.cfg.trusty.  The demotions.cfg file contains demotions from
  W -> X and demotions.cfg.trusty contains demotions from T -> X.
  Subsequently, some packages that were demoted between Trusty and Wily
  are not being considered as demotions for release upgrades to X and
  will be left installed on systems.

  Test Case
  ---------
  1) Install consolekit on a Trusty system
  2) Run 'sudo do-release-upgrade --frontend DistUpgradeViewText'
  3) Press 'd' for details when prompted
  4) Observe consolekit does not appear in the list of "No longer supported" packages

  To test the upgrade using the dist-upgrade tarball from proposed
  change step 2 to "sudo do-release-upgrade -p --frontend
  DistUpgradeViewText".

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